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Free Download Nubar Hovsepian, Rashid Khalidi, "The War on Lebanon: A Reader"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1566566800 | PDF | pages: 448 | 10.4 mb
Israel's 34-day bombardment of Lebanon in the summer of 2006-in which more than 1000 Lebanese civilians lost their lives-is one of the most tragic events to take place in the Middle East this century. It was unleashed in the context of the continued Israeli assault on the Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, as well as the US effort to "bring democracy" and redraw the map of the Middle East from Afghanistan to Iraq and perhaps to Iran.
What explains Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers and the scale of Israel's retaliation? Why did the US reject an early ceasefire, instead egging on Israel as it pummeled Lebanon and casualties mounted? Why did President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice believe the Lebanese and other Arabs would welcome the "birth pangs" of a "new Middle East" designed by the US and Israel? And where will it all lead? Can the party continue to be both part of Lebanon's parliament and an independent resistance movement? Will Lebanon become a modern, non-sectarian state or will the confessional order be further entrenched?

Free Download The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest In America by Lauren O'Neill-Butler
English | June 17, 2025 | ISBN: 1804296333 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 6.7 MB
How artists have changed America through direct action
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the 1960s to the present. In contrast to the financialized art market and celebrity artists, the book explores the power of collective effort - from protesting to philanthropy, and from wheat pasting to planting a field of wheat.

Free Download The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech-And Why They Fail
by Greg Lukianoff, Nadine Strossen
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1949846822 | 128 Pages | True ePUB | 1.56 MB
Heresy Press's first non-fiction offering addresses free speech and creative freedom-central to the Press's mission-through a systematic debunking of the most common pro-censorship arguments. Co-authored by Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech-And Why They Fail constitutes a bulwark against the persistent censorial efforts from both the political left and right. At a time when conformist pressures threaten viewpoint diversity, and when political attacks on free expression are mounting, this book is a valuable resource for all who seek to understand and defend the right that is central to both individual liberty and our democratic self-government.

Free Download The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunê and Self-Constitution in Classical Greece by Christopher Moore
English | July 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0197663508 | 408 pages | MOBI | 1.90 Mb
Sôphrosunê ("self-discipline") is the often-forgotten sibling of justice, wisdom, courage, and piety in discussions of canonical Greek virtues. Christopher Moore shows that during the classical period it was the object of significant debate-about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. By interpreting sôphrosunê as a commitment to norm-following, we see that these pointed discussions of the virtue, previously ignored as parodic moralizing or expressions of political propaganda, are in fact concerned with the ideal of human agency. These discussions query the way we become fully responsible for our actions. Greek thinking about sôphrosunê becomes thinking about self-constitution, our crucial capacity to act on the general reasons that we come to identify with as our own.
This perspective explains sôphrosunê's inclusion in Plato's canon of virtues, and before that its frequent appearance in funerary inscriptions, elegiac poetry, tragic drama, and historiography. It also explains the analytic attention given to it by Heraclitus, the Sophists, the historians, Socrates, Xenophon, and Plato. Moore deals principally with the classical period, though the book includes one chapter addressing earlier poetry and another addressing the virtue in two gender-sensitive post-classical works. An appendix deals with the epigraphic material.

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English | September 23rd, 2025 | ISBN: 9798217126460 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 248.52 MB
With a foreword by Professor Tim Spector
The Unprocessed Plate is essential reading for anyone wanting to cut out Ultra Processed Food (UPF) from their diet.

Free Download The University in the American Future By Thomas B. Stroup
2014 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0813154561 | EPUB | 1 MB
In these four notable essays based on Centennial lectures, four eminent scholars analyze the tensions affecting university education today and the forces which will shape the American university of the future. Kenneth D. Benne, director of the Human Relations Center of Boston University, describes the fragmentation which has come to characterize the university in 1965 in three divergent philosophies of university education and calls for the universities to undertake a radical change of their social organization. For, he says, only by restoring the community of learning can the universities exercise their proper leadership in resolving the conflicts and tensions of modern society. The place of the university as a clearing house of ideas and as the training center for new professions and services is set forth by Sir Charles Morris, vice chancellor of the University of Leeds, and by Henry Steele Commager, professor of American Studies at Amherst College. Finally, Gunnar Myrdal of the Institute of International Economic Studies in the University of Stockholm, looking at the probable social and economic trends of the future, sees the expansion of professional, practical, and research training, but warns that the social and moral implications of knowledge cannot be ignored, especially in view of the increasing demands of the developing countries upon the affluent nations.

Free Download The Ultimate Guide to Auras: How to Read, Cleanse, and Shift Color Energy to Change Your Life by Eileen Lee
English | June 17, 2025 | ISBN: 9798894140810, 9798894140827 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 43.5 MB
A gorgeously designed, comprehensive guide to uncovering and interpreting the unique energy fields that surround us, harnessing them for growth, healing, and shaping our realities, from aura photographer Eileen Lee.
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Free Download The U.S. Invasion of Grenada: Legacy of a Flawed Victory by Philip Kukielski
English | December 16, 2019 | ISBN: 1476678790 | 264 pages | PDF | 7.34 Mb
In the fall of 1983, arguably the coldest year of the decades-long Cold War, the world's greatest superpower invaded Grenada, a Marxist-led Caribbean nation the size of Atlanta. Why and how this unlikely one-week war was waged was shrouded in secrecy at the time-and has remained so ever since.
This book is an overdue reconsideration of Operation Urgent Fury, based on historical evidence that only recently has been revealed in declassified documents, oral history interviews and memoir accounts. This chronological narrative emphasizes the human dimension of a sudden crisis now regarded as the greatest foreign policy challenge of President Ronald Reagan's first term. Because the American intervention was hastily drafted, many snafus and accidents marked the chaotic initial days of the operation. Inevitably it fell to individual soldiers, aviators and sailors to perform heroic acts to make up for faulty intelligence, inadequate communication or poor coordination. This work recounts their inspiring, underreported stories in filling out a more complete portrait of Operation Urgent Fury. The final chapter recounts the invasion's aftereffects, especially the unexpected role it played in Congressional reform of the military for future combat in the Middle East.

Free Download Miriam R. Grant, "The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe"
English | ISBN: 3031737113 | 2024 | 250 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities. It further connects the rural and the urban, challenging traditional definitions of locationally-bound communities. Lodgers create micro, local and translocal communities and the lodging system offers livelihood strategies. Rather than engage in the dominant portrayal of rural-urban as binary, dichotomous space, we maintain that lodging represents and supports the translocal community and relational networks of the extended family as it seeks to maximize access to resources.

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English | February 10, 2025 | ISBN: 1394280505 | 432 pages | PDF | 3.72 Mb
"For wealth and business owning families and their advisers, this is the ultimate guide to getting it right."
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